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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Parenting OC seeks nominees for teacher and school employee awards |
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Parenting OC magazine is accepting nominations for its School Heroes of Orange County program, which will honor exemplary local teachers and school employees. Parents, students and administrators are encouraged to make the case for their favorite elementary, middle and high school teachers by Dec. 27, highlighting the ways they’ve gone above and beyond to inspire excitement for learning in an extremely challenging year.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/parenting-oc-magazine-seeks-nominees-for-education-awards-program/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Unions for teachers, nurses, grocery and hotel workers call for L.A. County shutdown in January |
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In a move that reflects the desperation of teachers, nurses, healthcare, grocery and hotel employees, their influential unions are calling for a strict month-long Los Angeles County shutdown in January to control the raging COVID-19 pandemic, save lives and ultimately allow for a quicker reopening of schools and the economy. Evidence of mounting frustration and anxiety has also emerged in newly released surveys of teachers and parents as most campuses across L.A. County remain closed to in-person classes.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-17/unions-call-emergency-la-county-covid-19-shutdown |
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L.A. teachers surveyed express dismal views of distance learning |
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Nine months after shutting down public schools, a survey of Los Angeles public school teachers showed their overwhelmingly dim view of distance learning: low student engagement that is only getting worse, deteriorating grades and a lack of resources to help their students’ crisis circumstances. Ninety-four percent of those surveyed said low student engagement was a barrier to remote learning. The vast majority of teachers say their students lack quiet spaces, adequate technology and high-speed internet and do not have schoolwork help from an adult.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-16/teachers-survey |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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Survey shows parents want LAUSD to offer in-person learning option next semester |
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Nine months into a global pandemic that has upended the nation’s school system, two education advocacy groups in Los Angeles released the results of separate surveys on Wednesday, Dec. 16, looking at some of the obstacles imposed by distance learning. One survey, by the group Speak UP, addressed parents’ opinions about school reopenings while a second poll, conducted by Educators for Excellence-Los Angeles and USC’s Rossier School of Education, focused on the challenges of distance learning through the perspective of classroom teachers.
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https://www.dailynews.com/2020/12/16/survey-shows-parents-want-lausd-to-offer-in-person-learning-option-next-semester/ |
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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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East Bay city says ‘no’ to school resource officers |
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The Antioch City Council on Tuesday opted not to accept a federal grant that would have partially paid for putting resource officers on school campuses. The 3-2 decision, with Mike Barbanica and Lori Ogorchock dissenting, came after hours of discussion and public comments and reversed a July 28 vote to accept a grant of $750,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice COPS Hiring Program to partially pay for six school resource officers. The city and Antioch Unified School District would have split the unpaid balance.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/16/east-bay-city-says-no-to-school-resource-officers/ |
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CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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California sets teachers, first responders for next vaccines |
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Teachers, first responders, and grocery and restaurant workers were among those recommended Wednesday to get the next round of scarce vaccines in California, as were florists and sawmill operators who fall into the same broad category of those deemed essential workers. “We’ve got to figure who we’re going to prioritize,” said Dr. Oliver Brooks, co-chairman of a 16-member panel of medical experts recommending who makes the potential life-and-death cut after the first round of about 3 million vaccines began going this week to health care workers and those in long-term care facilities.
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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/12/17/california-sets-teachers-first-responders-for-next-vaccines/ |
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DAILY BREEZE
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More Southern California kids are killing themselves during coronavirus pandemic |
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Melinda Robbins was driving home with her family in late August when she learned a former student had killed himself. “I cried all the way home,” the high school language arts teacher said. “His passing broke me.” In spring, the boy left her class at the Lee Pollard High School, a continuation school in the Corona-Norco Unified School District, and went back to his original school. “This is not the first student that I’ve lost in my career, and I hope and pray it will be the last,” Robbins said.
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https://www.dailybreeze.com/2020/12/17/more-southern-california-kids-are-killing-themselves-during-coronavirus-pandemic/ |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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California teachers unions mobilize against Democratic school reopening bill |
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California teachers unions are demanding that the Legislature maintain pandemic restrictions on school reopenings and have begun mobilizing against a Democratic bill introduced last week that could force schools to reopen in March. In separate letters to legislative leaders, the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers urge lawmakers to avoid rushing to reopen K-12 schools as Capitol momentum builds to address learning loss and education inequities. Most of the state's 6 million public schoolchildren remain at home with distance learning.
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https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/12/16/california-teachers-unions-mobilize-against-democratic-school-reopening-bill-1347658 |
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